Now and then she has spoken of her father; always tenderly, but always with a sigh; and I fancy that a deepening shadow steals over her face when she mentions that name.
She was standing at the low wooden gate opening into the little garden below the window of her room, in the deepening twilight of this September evening.
Then again came the spurt of bluish flame deepening to orange, and again she would see his slight, strong figure and the clear-cut mask of his face.
Through the deepening twilight the rolling pasture lands of Durham glowed with a green that was more a feeling than an actual tint.
An afterglow deepened within his spirit, whence the white flame had passed, deepening to a rose and ardent light.
But the dusk, deepening in the schoolroom, covered over his thoughts.
If it were not for depriving you of the theater, I'd rather just drift off now in the deepening gloom till swallowed up in it--lost utterly.
He saw through watering eyes the ever-deepening orange of the badge disappearing.
The deepening color of the badge seemed the one visible thing in a strange glaring world.
Bart saw the slow, inexorabledeepening of his badge--he had to get away.
Not for two thousand dollars," he answered, the look of trouble deepening in his eyes, but his lips were smiling.
Here the yellow level was broken by a dark patch of fallow land, there by a covert of trees also tinged with yellow, ordeepening to crimson and mauve--the harbinger of autumn.
He broke the envelope with a terrible misgiving, and read the letter through with a deepening and sickening feeling of horror.
Never had she seemed to me more lovely, more desirable, than she did as she moved about my bed in her gingham apron, with the anxious smile on her lips, and the delicate furrows deepening between her eyebrows.
Devotion to great moral ends is possible, only through the deepening and widening of man's knowledge of the nature of the world.
Every phase through which this ever-deepening emotion has passed, every form which this primary power has taken in its growth, has received from them its own proper expression.
The widening of his knowledge, which is brought about by increasing experience, is parallel with thedeepening and purifying of his moral life.
Lost in the deepening red The sea has forgotten the shore: The great dark steeds with their muffled tread Draw near once more.
What had ye done to her, masters of men, That her head be bowed down thus-- Thus for your golden vespers, And deepening angelus?
What had ye done to her, years upon years, That her head should be bowed down thus-- Thus for your golden vespers, And deepening angelus?
Sky into deepening sky Melts with that one great cry; And the lost doves of Ida moan on Siloa's hill.
By deepening the channel of the stream, and conducting most of the springs into it, many acres, which were formerly almost worthless, have been made worth 125 dollars per acre.
The deepening of our knowledge of comparative anatomy also gives us much surer foundations than those on which Darwin was obliged to build.
The philosophy of Ardigò, on the other side, appears more as a continuation and deepening of positivism, though the Italian thinker arrived at his point of view independently of French-English positivism.
As in deepening darkness we set forth on our homeward voyage, the heaven above pulsates at intervals with the beating of wings as yet more north-bound corros pass overhead.
The beak in this species opens far back, giving a very wide gape--colour inside pink, deepeningto dark carmine.
For a space a broken reed here or displaced lilies there help us forward; then the deepening water, all open, bears no trace.
The quill-feathers are pale-grey or ash-colour, only deepening into a darker shade towards the tips, and that only on the first two or three feathers.
The gradual widening and deepening of the river is the whole secret of the matter.
To gild thedeepening gloom, if Heaven But one bright hour allow, Oh, think that one bright hour is given, In all its splendor, now.
And sterner comes the roar Of sea and wind, and through the deepening gloom Fainter and fainter wreck and helmsman loom, And he too disappears, and comes no more.
Where, ghostlike in the deepening night, Cowl'd forms brush by in gleaming white.
He plodded for hours in the deepening snow, seeking a refuge from this persistent and deadly fall, but finding none.
The moonlight had been deepening fast, and Henry saw two of the great canoes appear, although they were yet a full half mile away.
We kept, therefore, good looking out for fear of shoals, sometimes shortening, sometimes deepening the water.
Sylvie, to divert the cloud of embarrassment that seemed to be deepening rather than dispersing for them both, rang the bell with a pretty imperativeness that was rather startling to Aubrey's nerves.
They smoked pensively, while the afterglow faded from the western sky and veil after veil of shadow crept stealthily out of the east, masking the rectangular, utilitarian ugliness of the street, deepening its dusk to darkness.
Blankly Peter Kenny looked at his cousin; with eyes in which deepening understanding mingled with anger as deep, and with profound misgivings as well, P.
We were entering a plain where the green of the meadows wasdeepening into mauve.
In spite of appearances they are still closely united in order to sustain the deepening river which will place its mouth on the mouth of the ocean.
Is it not the wind that has extinguished those dots of gold, the houses, without deepening the dark of the town?
Not to take too many chances in the deepening twilight (though all we'd admit to each other at the time was that we were doing it to avoid wetting my outfit), we lined by the sharp pitch and on down almost to the bend.
Twilight stole down on us idling there, silent, content to watch the red glow pass away from the buttes and peaks, the color deepening downward to meet the ebon shades of night creeping up like a dark tide.
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